Power-seekers transform social feeling “from an end into a means, and it is pressed into the service of nationalism and imperialism.”
The only way to counter this neurotic sense of power-seeking is to develop preventive methods by developing social feeling and cooperation.
Adler stressed the need for the development of social feeling by developing new, cooperative forms of childhood education within the family and schools.
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Alfred Adler was an Austrian physician and psychiatrist who is best-known for forming the school of thought known as individual psychology. He is also remembered for his concepts of the inferiority feeling and inferiority complex, which he believed played a major part in the formation of personality.
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